ABSTRACT
Information technology can be seen either as threat or as a solution to a vast range of problems. Television, telephones, radios, video cameras - these are all commonplaces. Although computer-based information technology in all its forms is a present reality, advances are so rapid that the future is brought slap up against our noses. Human beings are not simply chemical substances for which some predictive laws of behaviour are known with high degrees of precision. Through education not only are empirical experiences drawn upon but the experience of imaginative play is drawn out and expressed in a vast range of cultural forms. Information technology does not necessarily imply that we ask such questions. They were being asked long before its advent. People have always thought about the essential nature of education. Clearly, the technology is here already. Educationists must respond to it. The response is not simply to teach how to program, how to develop keyboard skills and electronic circuitry.
